1659 in music
# 1659 in music

The year 1659 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain.
* Fray García de San Francisco founds a Catholic mission in what is now El Paso, Texas, making him perhaps the first music teacher in the future United States.

## Publications

* Giovanni Battista Granata – Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola..., a collection of guitar music, published in Bologna
* Anthoni van Noordt – Tabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen (Tablature-book of psalms and fantasies), a collection of organ music, published in Amsterdam
* Christopher Simpson – The Division Viol, a set of practical instructions, published in London
* Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Duodena Selectarum Sonatarum

## Classical music

* Georg Arnold – Canzoni ariae et sonatae, Op.3
* Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy (incidental music)
* Maurizio Cazzati – Trio Sonatas, Op.18
* Jean-Baptiste Lully
   * Ballet de la Raillerie, LWV 11
   * Ballet de Toulouse, LWV 13
* Barbara Strozzi – Diporti di Euterpe, Op.7

## Opera

* Antonio Bertali – Il rè Gelidoro
* Robert Cambert – Pastorale d'Issy

## Births

* January 17 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
* March 6 – Salomo Franck, librettist for Bach Cantatas
* August 10 – Sybrandt van Noordt Jr., composer
* September 10 – Henry Purcell, composer
* October 22 – Georg Ernst Stahl, lyricist
* October 28 – Nicholas Brady, lyricist
* date unknown
   * Matteo Goffriller, cello maker
   * Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, composer

## Deaths

* April 15 – Simon Dach, hymn-writer (born 1605)
* September 27 – Andreas Tscherning, lyricist (born 1611)
* October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, opera librettist
* date unknown – Vinzenz Fux, composer (born c. 1606)
